I spend a few weeks every year teaching high-school and college students, and in my interactions with young people in and around universities I have noticed a trend. After class, at meals, and in walks around campus, the politically engaged students invariably ask me the same question: What do I think of Ben Shapiro? Nor am I alone. Recently Eliza Gray had a similar experience while reporting on young conservatives in the age of President Trump.

Gun control activists and families of school shooting victims protested the nation's largest gun lobby Saturday. Protesters gathered outside NRA headquarters in Virginia, demanding stricter gun laws and calling on the IRS to revoke the NRA's tax exempt status. In the Bronx, Governor Cuomo continued to call for gun safety reforms.

Littlefield, Texas, police say a concealed carry permit holder intervened and saved a mother of four who was under assault by a would-be carjacker armed with a knife. According to EverythingLubbock.com, Littlefield police said they received a phone call regarding an attempted carjacking/assault in progress. Police said, “A male subject was armed with a knife [and] was assaulting a female and trying to take her car.”

When a politician who abhors our freedom talks guns they can say some absurd things. “America is going to get a lot less safe,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said after a court ruling that found firearm schematics for 3-D printers can be shared online. Schumer then said those firearms “are not only scary, they’re outright dangerous in the way they can mimic the look and the capacity of a hardened, fully semi-automatic weapon.”

Gubernatorial candidates Andre Gillum and Jeff Greene both called for a full repeal of Florida’s Stand Your Ground law during MSNBC interviews with Rev. Al Sharpton. “The fact that you have an individual who becomes judge, juror and executioner all in there own minds under the protection of the law in the United States is a deep travesty of justice,” Gillum told Sharpton.

A man was shot with his own gun Saturday when a man he allegedly tried to rob wrestled the gun away from him on Detroit's west side. Police said the victim, a 29-year-old man, was sitting in his vehicle with his family in front of a home in the 5000 block of Pacific Avenue when a man approached him and announced a holdup about 11:15 p.m. The victim wrestled the gun away from the man trying to rob him. During the confrontation, the attempted robber was shot in the buttocks, police said.

The suspect, 39, fled to the 5000 block of Oregon Street, where he was arrested. Police recovered a .44 Magnum and .40-caliber handgun.

Michigan's Supreme Court recently ruled that public school districts can legally ban guns on school property, and at least one area superintendent is calling the decision a victory both for student safety and for local control.

Dr. Michael Shibler, longtime superintendent of Rockford Public Schools, says he is a strong supporter of the Second Amendment, but, as with any freedom guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution, there ought to be restrictions that come with those protected rights.

"I believe in the constitutional amendment, but I also believe there should be restrictions on that based upon where a person might want to carry a concealed or open carry sidearm," Shibler.

Hundreds of armed supporters of President Donald Trump, led by a fringe Republican congressional candidate, marched on Saturday, leaving blood from scattered street fights in their wake. Ostensibly a campaign event for long-shot U.S. Senate hopeful Joey Gibson, members of his group Patriot Prayer urged the president to lock up his political opponents, including Hillary Clinton, and promised violent retribution for anyone who threatened their right to “free speech” or armed self-defense.

The debate over so-called ‘ghost guns’ has cost a candidate for state Attorney General the endorsement of the state’s largest gun rights group. The Connecticut Citizens Defense League (CCDL) had previously endorsed Republican Susan Hatfield in the primary race. Hatfield is the GOP-endorsed candidate who will face former State Representative John Shaban in an August 14th primary.

Gun prohibitionists with Democrat U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut perhaps in their lead have ramped up their opposition to the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court, worrying that he will “give the Supreme Court a majority to overturn assault weapons bans imposed by several states,” according to the Connecticut Mirror.

“Given his history as being an activist Second Amendment extremist,” Murphy said in a report by WSHU public radio, “I think he is going to try to push the court to take another look at how it interprets the Second Amendment.”

Conservation and safety, that’s what organizers of the 7th Annual Big Sky Youth Event hope kids get from the shooting range. Kids learned about guns and archery at the Blue Creek Shooting Complex on Saturday. The kids learned about fire-arm safety before shootings shotguns, .22's, pistols and a bow and arrow.

About 100 protesters, many wearing T-shirts emblazoned with "NRA = Not Real Activists," marched through the National Rifle Association's annual meeting in Dallas in May to slam the powerful gun lobby as too conciliatory on gun rights and rally for their candidate for the board. Adam Kraut, a gun rights lawyer, fell about 4,000 votes short of the 71,000 needed for election, but earned 5,000 more than the previous year, a sign of the growth of the Second Amendment purists within the NRA known to many as "gundamentalists."

The Clarksville Police Department has issued a reminder for residents to lock their vehicles. So far in 2018, 449 vehicles have been broken into and 59 guns stolen. Police say many of these incidents could have been prevented by residents simply removing valuables and locking their vehicles.

In 2018, SIG Sauer introduced a new line of 9 mm pistol ammo designed for use in concealed-carry guns. The SIG 365 Elite Performance Ammunition is designed for optimal performance in short-barreled pistols, such as the company's P365 micro-compact. The P365 has a 3.1-inch barrel, and as readers know, shorter barrels often produce less velocity, and less velocity sometimes means that hollow-point bullets won’t expand as well as they do at higher velocities generally acquired in longer-barreled guns.

With the start of Montana’s bow hunting season less than a month away, archers in the Helena area were getting prepared this weekend. The Lewis and Clark Archers held a 3D warmup shoot at their outdoor range in Davis Gulch. About 50 people came out for the event, where they were able to take aim at a number of life-size animal targets to help get their bows sighted in.

Deer tags are still available for most deer hunting zones in the Southern California intercoastal mountains and for the massive A Zone, which covers a huge chunk for the coastal region from Santa Barbara to north of San Francisco.

On Tuesday, a federal court forced Cody Wilson’s web page to go dark. But still, the 30-year-old inventor of what he says is the first working 3D-printed gun feels as if he scored a victory: The blueprints for his AR-15 are out there. After a judge signed the order that forced Wilson to take down the designs he’d posted that enabled users to make guns with a 3D printer, one Twitter user trumpeted that the files were being spread.

A Santa Paula man was arrested by federal authorities after a three-month investigation into illegal firearms manufacturing, authorities said. Gilbert Estrada, 38, a convicted felon, was arrested Wednesday by agents from the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, according to the Santa Paula Police Department, which assisted in the joint operation.

August is National Shooting Sports Month, and the Heartland Public Shooting Park staff wants to celebrate by sharing its passion with everyone. The shooting park will host the Heartland First Shots event from 9 a.m. to noon on Aug. 25. The event is free and no registration is required. It’s available to the public to come experience what the park has to offer, as well as share opportunities to shoot different types of guns.

Working on other people’s guns over the past decade has taught me that we all approach cleaning and maintaining our firearms differently. If the AR-15 rifles coming into my shop are any indication, some folks are confusing the unloading and clearing of their firearms with actually cleaning the guns. I find myself appreciating what the armorers and gunsmiths who supported me in the Army suffered through on a daily basis.

An armed bystander shot a man who open-fired on a back-to-school event at a Titusville park following a fistfight, police said. The shooting occurred at Isaac Campbell Park on South Street shortly after 5:20 p.m. when the shooter, whom police have not identified, returned to the park after a fistfight and began firing.

If the apostle Paul had been writing to the Galatians in 2018, the above well-known biblical passage might have turned out a bit more colorful: “For verily, ye knoweth what they say about karma, right? She doth be a B-word.”

Each year, Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) publishes the Wastebook, a project developed by former Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) in 2008. The document details the most ridiculous instances of federal government largesse, such as $1.7 million for a hologram comedy club in Jamestown, N.Y., $450,000 for National Science Foundation-funded research that determined dinosaurs couldn’t sing, and $230,000 for a National Institutes of Health-funded study showing that rhesus macaques are aroused by the color red. For the 2018 edition, Flake’s staff may want to examine a recent U.S. Bureau of Justice Assistance-funded study that came to the shocking conclusion that larger caliber firearms are more deadly than relatively smaller caliber firearms.

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